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Rosana Paulino’s Pantheon of Black Plant Goddesses Arrives in Paris
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Rosana-Paulino_Foto-de-Rodrigo-Ladeira_2.jpg?w=1024″] The growing visibility of Rosana Paulino’s work reaches a new chapter with the opening this week of her first solo exhibition in Paris, at Mendes Wood DM’s outpost in the French capital. Titled “Bloom in the Sunlight, Dream in the Moonlight,” the exhibition introduces new plant goddesses into the Afro-botanical pantheon Paulino…
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Art Basel Paris Avant Première 2026: A Handful of Sales, and a $100 M. Work
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_5726.jpg?w=1024″] What’s the vibe in Paris, you may be asking? While the detritus of the weekend’s protests marks many of the city’s arrondissements, the art world is proceeding with business as usual, with events and openings going on as planned Monday night and Tuesday, culminating in the opening of Art Basel Paris’s Avant…
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James Gibson’s Cultural and Spiritual Legacy Lives on in His Sculptures
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/aG1986RA2.jpg?w=1000″] With a career spanning 60 years, James Gibson was a revered Tennessee teacher and sculptor. Today, over 240 sculptures from his estate are available to collectors for purchase. It’s hard to miss a sculpture by James Gibson, whose numerous and often massive works can be characterized by blocky abstracted, yet continuous forms,…
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Jenny Holzer on Paris Protests: ‘It’s Gruesome’
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ORSAY_NEWMOCK_06_SQUARE.jpg?w=1024″] In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. “It’s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to…
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Donors Are Trying to Save Kennedy Center’s Artworks from Destruction
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/kennedy-center-artwork-bust-sculpture.jpg?w=1024″] It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed…
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Five Essential Books About Pop Art
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/aia_sylabus.jpg?w=1024″] Pop Art arrived in the middle of the 20th century, as artists experimented with pictures and processes borrowed from mass media. Their high-low mashups, nostalgic references, and high-octane colors remain alluring, relevant, and surprisingly misunderstood. In time for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective on Roy Lichtenstein, read these five books…
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Elizabeth Holmes’s X Account: What’s with Her Norman Rockwell Image?
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HBTJvL9X0AAaN1_.jpeg?w=1024″] This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US. Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes’s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a…
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Experts Seek Return of Indigenous Artifacts in Tycoon’s Collection
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2250277700.jpg?w=1024″] A Canadian seafood tycoon’s financial troubles have turned into a debate over who gets to decide what happens to his art collection, which includes dozens of Indigenous artifacts that some experts say should be returned to their communities of origin. John Risley, the billionaire businessman who cofounded Clearwater Seafoods, is caught up…
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Villa Domínguez Jewish Museum Stays Open Amid Local Government Clash
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-513286348.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Villa Domínguez Jewish Museum in Argentina is keeping its doors open amid clashes with the local government. An abstract Hilma af Klint painting, coming to auction for the first time in more…
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Hilma af Klint Painting Comes to Auction in Sweden
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HAK-karusell_xxlarge.jpeg?w=1024″] A Swedish auction house will sell an abstract painting by Hilma af Klint, an artist whose work almost never comes to market. The painting, titled Ser III No. 5 (1920), will be sold by the Stockholm-based Bukowskis house during a November 19 sale of modern art and design objects. It has been…